Foot Soldier

Definition: Foot Soldier

Foot Soldier

Noun

1. Fights on foot with small arms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Foot Soldier

Combatant

Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman.

Crosswords: Foot Soldier

Books

• Field Equipment of the European Foot Soldier, 1900-1914 (reference)

• Line Doggie: Foot Soldier in Vietnam (reference)

• Soldat Volume III: Equipping the German Foot Soldier in Europe 1944-1945 (reference)

• Soldat: The Ww II German Army Combat Uniform Collector's Handbook, Equipping the German Army Foot Soldier in Europe 1943 (reference)

• The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commander on horse addresses overweight foot soldier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Arabic 

‏جندي من المشاة (doughboy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пехотинец (footman, footslogger, infantryman, peon). (various references)

Chinese 

步兵 (foot, infantry, infantryman). (various references)

French

fantassin. (various references)

German

infanterist (infantryman). (various references)

Hungarian

gyalogos (afoot, fantassin, foot passenger, footsoldier, ground trooper, infantry, infantryman, pedestrian, wayfaring, wobbler). (various references)

Italian

fante (chap, fellow, infantryman, Jack, knave). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

若党 (foot-man), 歩兵 (infantry, infantryman, pawn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほへい (infantry, infantryman), わかとう (foot-man). (various references)

Pig Latin

ootfay oldiersay

Romanian

pifan (infantry man), infanterist (dough-boy, footman, infantry man). (various references)

Russian 

пехотинец (footslogger, infantryman, peon). (various references)

Spanish

soldado general, soldado de infantería (dogface, footslogger). (various references)

Swedish

fotsoldat. (various references)

Ukrainian

піхотинець (dogface, footman, footslogger, infantryman, peon, pongo, yard bird). (various references)

miles, militem, militene, milites, militi, militibus, militum, pedes, pedites, peditibus, peditum. (various references)

pedonem. (various references)

peonier. (various references)

laquais. (various references)

Misspellings

"Foot Soldier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: footsoldier. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: flooders, footlers, footsore, foretold, oestriol, refloods, stolider, telfords, trefoils.

-4 letters: defrost, disroot, doolies, editors, estriol, filters, flirted, flooder, floored, floosie, florets, florist, foetors, foisted, folders, folioed, foliose, foodies, footers, footier, footies, footled, footler, footles, footsie, fordoes, forties, frosted, lifters, lofters, loftier, loiters, looters, oldster, oolites, orioles, oroides, osteoid, ostiole, reflood, refolds, retools.